Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Department of Corrections
 
Board
State Board of Local and Regional Jails
 
chapter
Minimum Standards for Jails and Lockups [6 VAC 15 ‑ 40]
Action Amend Minimum Standards for Jails and Lockups to add requirements on restraint of pregnant offenders
Stage NOIRA
Comment Period Ended on 2/29/2012
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2/27/12  5:07 pm
Commenter: Martha Foster, Private citizen

Use of restraints on pregnant women during childbirth
 

As a women who has given childbirth herself, I am utterly opposed to the use of restraints on women giving birth in a prison.  I believe this is inhuman treatment.

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